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But you can go on fooling yourself into believing that the relationships you have made for convenience, comfort, and well-being are actually relationships of love. I
does not matter how many times true love has been proclaimed; if a few expectations and requirements are not fulfilled, things fall apart.
This is essentially a mutual benefit scheme.
When you talk about love, it has to be unconditional.
Love need not necessarily be convenient; most of the time it is not. It takes life. You have to invest yourself.
Something of you should fall or melt away to accommodate the other.
A love affair need not be with any particular person; you could be having a great love affair with life itself.
Our actions are always molded by the demands of external situations. But love is an inner state, and how you are within
yourself can definitely be unconditional.
You realize love is not something that you do; love i...
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Love is never between two people.
is what happens within you, and your interiority need not be enslaved to someone or some thing else.
sit with something that means nothing to you right now—maybe a tree, a pebble, a worm, or an insect. Do it a few days in a row. After a while, you will find you can look upon it with as much love as you do your wife or husband or mother or child. Maybe the worm does not know this. That doesn’t matter. If you can look at everything lovi...
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The most generous way to live is to set an example to the rest of the world by living life full-throttle and beyond all limitations. If
Devotion means you are not a kanjoos—you are full of juice! A devotee is someone who seeks to explore and experience life as fully as possible.
Devotion is not a dissection of life, but a total embrace. It is not a love affair, but a crazy business.
When I say “devotion,” I am not talking about faith or belief.
All that happens the moment you believe
something is that your stupidity acquires confidence. Confidence and stupidity are a very dangerous combination, but they generally go together.
belief system takes away this problem; it gives you enormous confidence, but it does not cure your stupidity.
Devotion is not an act; it is not directed toward one thing or another; the object of devotion is immaterial. It is just that with devotion you have dissolved all the resistance in you so that the divine can transpire as effortlessly as breath. The divine is not an entity sitting up there; it is a living force every moment of your life. Devotion makes you aware of this.
Tell me, which should God believe—your prayers or your curses?
When somebody said some thing similar two thousand years ago it worked for him— because of the fire in his heart, because of the truth that was burning within him, not because of the words he uttered.
There is nothing tame or tepid about devotion. It is not for the lily-livered. It is hot. Devotion scorches.
It is only a juvenile intelligence that analyzes things and arrives at a conclusion.
your intelligence is sufficiently evolved and mature, you realize that the more you analyze, the further away you are from any conclusion.
You cannot get it because you are it.
When you realize experientially that every atom, every grain of sand, every pebble, every piece of life from the smallest to the biggest is unfathomable, you will naturally bow down in utmost devotion to everything.
you simply sit ...
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breathe, you will know life better than through a...
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An idiot is incapable of drawing conclusions. A mystic is unwilling to draw conclusions.
The fool just enjoys whatever little he knows and one who has seen life in its utmost depth enjoys it absolutely.
Devotion is a simple method of dissolving all the hurdles on the path.
If those who are struggling to contain the chattering of the “monkey mind” become devoted, the chatter will just evaporate.
If you learn to bow, to hold everything higher than yourself, it does not seem to be good for your self-esteem. But becoming a devotee does not mean you are a pushover...
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If you have no esteem, very good. If you have no self, fabulous!
you want to become a devotee, at least once an hour in all the waking moments of your life, put your hands together and bow to something.
Don’t choose.
This need not be a physical act; it could be internal action.
Just do it throughout the day, once an hour. See if it can become once a minute.
Once that becomes your way of being, you are a devotee.
A devotee is someone who is willing to dissolve into the object of devotion. If you are a devotee of life, you will become one with it. Don’t be an outsider to the life process. Become a devotee. Dissolve.
yogic tradition does not mention God, or deny it either.
When you misinterpret the expression as the cause, it will only bring entanglement, not freedom.
but your life energies are always longing to break the boundaries set by your physical and mental structures.
Slowly, in the process of living, many people have stopped following the trajectory of their life energies.
So, if you go the way your mind goes, you should know you are heading toward an alternative psychological creation;
The various spiritual practices in the yogic sciences are intended to assist this longing on three levels: the physical body, the mental body, and the third sheath, or layer, of the human mechanism, the pranamayakosha, or the energy body.
you manage these two instruments of body and mind consciously, then your experience of life is one hundred percent of your making.
All you need to do is create a distance between you and everything that you accumulated from outside.
